Jock Anderson

William McLeod – Bill – Wilson QC this week joined a small body of lawyers to be appointed directly from the Bar to the Court of Appeal.

Attorney General Michael Cullen told CaseLoad Justice Wilson, generally regarded as possessing strong litigation credibility,  would be sworn in in the new year.

Justice Wilson has a master of laws from Victoria University. He became a partner in Bell Gully in 1971 and was made Queen’s Counsel in 1996.

He specialized in litigation principally in corporate, banking, securities, competition and media law.

Between 1979 and 1996 he was legal adviser to the New Zealand Bankers’ Association, the New Zealand Educational Institute, the Newspaper Publishers’ Association and the New Zealand Press Association.

Bill Wilson was a member of the Waitangi Tribunal from 1986 to 1995 as well as holding a number of positions on working parties, review panels and advisory groups.

He is author of the banking law title in Laws of New Zealand and in 2006 was chairman o the New Zealand Rugby Union’s appeal council.

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